Provision and manage skills for your organization (original) (raw)

This article explains how organization owners can provision skills for everyone in their organization, and how to scope skills to specific groups using plugins. Provisioning skills lets you distribute approved workflows and capabilities across your organization from one place.

Prerequisites

Before you can provision skills for your organization, you must navigate to Organization settings > Skills and enable both Code execution and file creation and Skills by toggling them on. Skills require code execution to function, so if code execution is disabled, skills will not be available.

Provision skills for everyone

When you upload a skill through organization settings, it becomes available to everyone in your organization in Customize > Skills. Individual members no longer need to upload the same skill themselves.

To provision a skill:

Admin-provisioned skills are enabled by default for everyone, but members can toggle individual skills off if they choose. This gives your organization consistent, approved workflows while letting members customize their own experience.

Provision skills to specific groups

Provisioning a skill through Organization settings > Skills gives it to everyone. To give a skill to only some members, bundle your skills into a plugin and assign that plugin to a group. The group's members see those skills, and members outside the group don't.

For example, if you have 10 skills for your marketing team, add them to a plugin and assign it to the marketing group. Only that group gets those skills.

Skills provisioned this way appear in chat, on the web and the Chat tab in Claude Desktop, as well as in Cowork. Group targeting you've already set up for Cowork carries over to chat with no extra steps.

Control skill sharing between members

In addition to provisioning skills top-down, you can let members share skills they've built with each other. Two independent toggles control this:

How shared skills differ from provisioned skills

Monitor sharing activity

Skill sharing events are captured in the audit log and Compliance API as role_assignment events. You can see who shared a skill, with whom, and whether it was peer-to-peer or organization-wide.

The audit log doesn't capture the contents of shared skills—only the share event itself. There's no admin dashboard to browse or inspect the contents of skills shared between members.

How members see provisioned and shared skills

Skills appear for each member in Customize > Skills, organized into three sections:

Owner-provisioned skills are marked with a visual indicator so members can distinguish them from other skill types. Members can click on any skill to preview its contents and description.

Manage and remove provisioned skills

The Organization skills section in Organization settings > Skills displays all skills provisioned for your organization. Use search and the section headings to navigate them.

To remove a skill from your organization, locate it in the Organization skills list and select the option to remove it. Once removed, the skill will no longer appear in members' skills lists in Customize > Skills.

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